Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.